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Women That Dive: Alejandra Hernandez
On almost every dive, researcher Alejandra Hernandez brings a camera along.
But far removed from contemporary social media culture, she uses her lens as a tool to develop data, not selfies. As a coral reef ecologist, Alejandra is principally concerned with community and population dynamics and how organisms respond to a changing environment.
By combining photogrammetry with enhanced software, she and her team are able to stitch those pictures together to map underwater ecosystems and topographies. And in turn, photo mappings generate massive data sets about various coral colonies, including depth, habitat, how they thrive, precise location, etc.